Clothes-wsistgek



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. COLBY, OF WATERBURY, VERMONT.

CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Speccaton forming' part of Letters Patent No. 30,802, dated December 4, 1860; Reissued December 4, 1866, No. 2,408.

To ail whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. COLBY, of IVaterbury, in the county of Vashington, in the State of Vermont, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Ringing Device; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a plan or top view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same taken in the line ai Fig. 4. Fig. 3 an end view of the same. Fig. 4 a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class ofv clothes-wringing devices which are composed of pressure rollers.

The object of the invention is to facilitate the application of the device to washing machines or to any t-ub or receptacle by rendering the device self-clamping or holding as hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A, A represents two end pieces in which the bearings a, of a shaft B, are formed the shaft being allowed to rotate freely in its bearings and having an elastic roller C, placed on it. To one end of the shaft B, a crank D is attached. The end pieces A, A, have each a tang or shank F, formed on them and at the end of each shank E, there is secured at right angles an elastic projection F, as shown more particularly in Figs. 2 and 3. rThe end pieces A, A, are also provided each with a projection G, through which a shaft H passes. On the outer ends of this shaft, arms I, I, are placed, one on each end, and secured thereon by nuts Y). The arms I, I, are allowed to work or turn freely on the shaft I-I, and between the upper ends an elastic roller J is fitted. 'Ihe lower ends of the arms I, I, extend down opposite to the projections F, F.

The roller J, is directly over the roller C, where the implement is adjusted for use" and it is fitted to the tub or bx of a washing machine by placing the arms I, I, and tangs E, E, at opposite sides of the tub or box as shown clearly in Figs. -2 and 3, the tub or box being shown in red.

The clothes to be operated upon are passed between the rollers C, J, the crank D, being turned and the clothes in ybeing forced or passed between the rollers cause the lower ends of the arms I, I and the projections F, F, to bear against the sides of the tub or box, and the implement is thereby firmly secured to the tub or box, and the greater the pressure on the clothes or. the greater the work to which the rollers are subjected the firmer the implement will be held in propery position on the tub or box.

I do not claim the employment or use of elastic pressure rollers for expressing water from clothes for they have been previously used for similar analogous purposes, but

I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The construction of the clothes wringer with tangs E, E, pivoted arms I, I and rollers J, C, or their equivalents arranged so that the act of passing the clothes between the rollers will cause the device to clamp itself firmly to the tub or other article, substantially as herein shown and described.

GEO. J. COLBY.

W'itnesses I/VALTER I. I-IIMEs, J. C. BRADLEY. 

